Towards a metaphor-annotated corpus of Mandarin Chinese
| Autor: | Ben Pin Yun Wang, Xiaofei Lu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Register (sociolinguistics)
Linguistics and Language Metaphor Computer science media_common.quotation_subject Transferability Library and Information Sciences computer.software_genre Mandarin Chinese 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Education 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences media_common 060201 languages & linguistics business.industry 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts Part of speech Linguistics language.human_language Variation (linguistics) 0602 languages and literature language Artificial intelligence Computational linguistics Construct (philosophy) business computer Natural language processing |
| Zdroj: | Language Resources and Evaluation. 51:663-694 |
| ISSN: | 1574-0218 1574-020X |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10579-017-9392-9 |
| Popis: | Building on the success of the VU Amsterdam Metaphor Corpus, which comprises English texts annotated with metaphor following the Metaphor Identification Procedure Vrjie Universiteit (MIPVU; Steen et al. in Cogn Linguist 21(4):765–796, 2010a; Steen et al. in A method for linguistic metaphor identification: from MIP to MIPVU. John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2010b), this study has three aims: (1) to adapt and evaluate the transferability and reliability of MIPVU for Mandarin Chinese; (2) to construct a corpus of Chinese texts annotated for metaphor using the adapted procedure; and (3) to examine the distribution of metaphor-related words across Chinese texts in three different written registers: academic discourse, fiction, and news. The results of our inter-annotator reliability test show that MIPVU can be reliably applied to linguistic metaphor identification in Chinese texts. Our metaphor-annotated corpus consists of texts randomly sampled from the Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese, totaling 30,012 words (about 10,000 for each register). Data analysis reveals that approximately one out of every nine lexical units in our Chinese corpus is related to metaphor, that there is considerable variation in metaphor density across different registers and lexical categories, and that metaphor density is significantly lower in Chinese than in English texts. Our assessment of the replicability of MIPVU for Mandarin Chinese adds to the groundbreaking methodological contribution that Steen et al. (2010a, b) has made to metaphor research. The metaphor-annotated corpus of Mandarin Chinese contributes a valuable language resource for Chinese metaphor researchers, and our analysis of the distribution of metaphor-related words in the corpus offers useful new insights into the extent and use of metaphor in Chinese discourse. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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